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Historical Account of Class, Race Wars Relevant for Organizers Today
(Image: Melville House Publishers) As a kid, I didn't know the term working-class, but I certainly knew the antagonisms that came from falling below the middle and …

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Occupying Democracy: A Moral Revolution for Social Justice
Protesters march on the pedestrian walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, November 17, 2011. (Photo: Todd Heisler / The New York Times) The moral principle …

Frances Fox Piven Scorns Death Threats, Says of Right-Wing Attacks: “I Love It“
(Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr) For most of her life, Frances Fox Piven has worked as a professor of social sciences and activist far away from public …

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Why Republicans Aren’t Mentioning the Real Cause of Rising Prices at the Gas Pump
(Photo: Paulo Ordoveza / Flickr) Gas prices continue to rise, which is finally giving Republicans an issue. Mitt Romney is demanding the President open up more domestic …

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The Fetishization of Balance
I generally don’t bother reading Thomas Friedman. A good friend gave me a copy of The World Is Flat, and I started reading it. Somewhere in the first one …

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Thirteen Reasons Goldman’s Quitting Exec May Have a Point
An executive at Goldman Sachs left the firm today with a bang, penning a New York Times op-ed accusing the company of increasingly putting profits ahead of clients. Greg …

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GOP Strategy for Hispanic Voters: It’s the Economy
Pueblo, Colorado - For many years, and multiple election cycles, Republicans talked about the growing Hispanic vote in America like moonstruck, misunderstood boys at a high school dance. They …

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79,000 Unemployed South Carolinians to Lose Long-Term Jobless Benefits
Extended federal unemployment benefits are being phased out for almost 80,000 jobless workers in South Carolina despite the state’s high 9.3 percent jobless rate. About 6,500 people will lose …

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On Bank of America, Occupy Wall Street Has Told You So
(Photo: Mike Fleshman / Flickr) “What's going on today, guys?” asked Detective Rick Lee, or, as he's more widely known, Hipster Cop. I was standing outside the …

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Energy Prices Bump up Inflation as CPI Rose 0.4 Percent in February
The Consumer Price Index rose 0.4 percent in February—the largest such gain since last April. Over the last three months, the CPI has averaged an annualized rate of …